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"Since I have experience in cross-compiling and building automation, I often choose Rust as my primary programming language." - hmmm, not sure I see how the sec

by rob74 4y ago

"Since I have experience in cross-compiling and building automation, I often choose Rust as my primary programming language." - hmmm, not sure I see how the second follows from the first? "In addition, Rust is still a relatively new language, and utilizing any technology from the previous decade is setting you up to fail." - er, no? Or at least you should consider the thought that using a technology that isn't established yet and might be abandoned could also set you up for failure? Not saying that Rust is in danger of that, but... "Sometimes, following the hype train is the quickest route to success." - ok, I'm not sure I want to read this article anymore. Or is my irony detector malfunctioning?

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MobiusHorizons 4y ago
I had the same reaction. The only charitable idea I could come up with is that the author believes using tools with a lot of attention sets them up to receive more support from the community. But it could also be that the author simply wants to garner more attention for the article/project, or thinks using the hype train technologies looks better on a resume.
stusmall 4y ago
I've noticed logrocket churns out semi-technical blog posts on mass on all sorts of subjects. Take a look at what has been submitted from them: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=logrocket.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=logrocket.com There isn't much a common theme on what they write about. It seems to be a bit of everything programming related and usually fairly shallow tutorials. My guess is that it is a marketing strategy. They write all these tutorials to show up in developers searches for technical problems and hackernews. Its gets them a little name recognition. I guess it's worked in that I know their name and what they do but it hasn't worked in that I don't have an extremely high opinion of their articles. I mean they aren't bad, one helped me out once, but they are never amazing.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  > blog posts on mass on all sorts of subjects "en masse"?
- maxbond 4y ago
  I don't really disagree, but I would note they aren't arbitrary, there's some topics they're interested in and write about. Like Rust and data visualization. Lots of them are about gluing together two popular technologies. I imagine that this a compromise between their expertise and which topics are trendy. I agree it's for sure a marketing strategy, and that that necessarily makes the content middling to good but never great. Sometimes I'm interested in some pair of technologies that feels like something Logrocket would write about, and it usually turns out to be true. If you wanna use D3 with your favorite frontend framework and want to avoid some of the pain of starting out, you'll probably find a reasonable competent explanation and avoid some of the early pitfalls.

by rob74 4y ago

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MobiusHorizons 4y ago

I had the same reaction. The only charitable idea I could come up with is that the author believes using tools with a lot of attention sets them up to receive more support from the community. But it could also be that the author simply wants to garner more attention for the article/project, or thinks using the hype train technologies looks better on a resume.

stusmall 4y ago

I've noticed logrocket churns out semi-technical blog posts on mass on all sorts of subjects. Take a look at what has been submitted from them: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=logrocket.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=logrocket.com There isn't much a common theme on what they write about. It seems to be a bit of everything programming related and usually fairly shallow tutorials. My guess is that it is a marketing strategy. They write all these tutorials to show up in developers searches for technical problems and hackernews. Its gets them a little name recognition. I guess it's worked in that I know their name and what they do but it hasn't worked in that I don't have an extremely high opinion of their articles. I mean they aren't bad, one helped me out once, but they are never amazing.

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
> blog posts on mass on all sorts of subjects "en masse"?
maxbond 4y ago
I don't really disagree, but I would note they aren't arbitrary, there's some topics they're interested in and write about. Like Rust and data visualization. Lots of them are about gluing together two popular technologies. I imagine that this a compromise between their expertise and which topics are trendy. I agree it's for sure a marketing strategy, and that that necessarily makes the content middling to good but never great. Sometimes I'm interested in some pair of technologies that feels like something Logrocket would write about, and it usually turns out to be true. If you wanna use D3 with your favorite frontend framework and want to avoid some of the pain of starting out, you'll probably find a reasonable competent explanation and avoid some of the early pitfalls.